Non-commercial in nature (topics specific to one commercial product or company are not allowed)

Free of recruitment, sales, product tutorials or company promotion

Free of charge

A room is set aside for Birds-of-a-Feather topics which pop-up during the conference. If you have a topic you would like to discuss, or continue a discussion from a session, Room 505 has a sign-up board to reserve the room. You may sign up for up to 2 hours.

ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization (Carto) Birds of a Feather

This session explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial datasets. Presenters demonstrate various solutions for interactive cartographic visualization and international mapping. They also discuss worldwide spatial-data standards and how to apply these standards to computer graphics applications.

Immersive Visualization for Science, Research and Art - International

In this session on immersive visualization systems for science and research, scientific visualization information visualization, and art and science, invited speakers and panels discuss collaborative initiatives in visualization and visual-analytics frameworks.

Going Cloud Native

Join a continued discussion with key representatives from the graphics community who will compare experiences and explore techniques related to pushing the production pipeline and correlated resources toward the cloud.

Women in Tech: Finding your Voice in the Visual Effects Workplace

Join a discussion with successful female visual effects and digital supervisors. Topics include: production obstacles, navigating difficult conversations, and excelling in your career while preserving a work-life balance.

Accelerating Vision Processing with Khronos OpenVX, NNEF and OpenCL

Learn the latest techniques for using the OpenVX and OpenCL APIs, and the NNEF Neural Net file format, to accelerate vision-processing applications ranging from augmented reality to deep learning-based scene recognition.

Leonardo Meeting

This session of short presentations by Leonardo staff and outstanding practitioners is an opportunity for people to meet and share their interests in the intersection of art, science, and/or technology.

Mobile VR

Come share your VR creations, inquiries and ideas. Bring your headsets, demo's, and questions. Whether you are getting started or experienced, come network and collaborate with the VR development community.

Computer Graphics for Simulation

This session discusses topics on the collaboration between the graphics and simulation-theory research communities. Topics include discrete and continuum simulation visualization for distributed simulation in 3D AR and VR.

Extending Reality Through Mobile and IoT Technologies

A session for creators who have built apps for Samsung Gear VR, Microsoft Hololens, Google Cardboard, Apple ARKit, and non-tethered AR, VR, and mixed-reality experiences. The focus is on brands, gamers, and businesses.

For attendees interested in a mobile smart-vision system to help visually impaired people navigate unfamiliar indoor environments: a discussion of environmental feature recognition using computer vision, mobile technologies, and cloud computing.